Siracusa Sicilia - A complete overview on the province of Siracusa and its cities
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Syracuse I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Syracuse
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Syracuse "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Syracuse
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Syracuse We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Syracuse
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Syracuse I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Syracuse
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Syracuse Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Syracuse
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Syracuse "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Syracuse
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Syracuse Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Syracuse
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Syracuse To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Syracuse
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Syracuse To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Syracuse
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Syracuse Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Syracuse
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Syracuse In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Syracuse
